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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| [quote=Baboonery]
[quote=nevermodern]
I come back to the Dartmouth Arms example. And there really is no reason why a decent deli couldn't thrive in FH.
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Perhaps, perhaps not. I'd favour ... |
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Toffeejim |
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13-11-2007, 03:04 PM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| I was walking under the railway bridge today and was reminded how generally crummy and depressing it looks. We get thousands passing through Forest Hill every day who are confronted with the same thin... |
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Toffeejim |
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05-11-2007, 12:43 AM |
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Thread: A challenge to all shopkeepers and restauranteurs in Forest Hill
Post: RE: A challenge to all shopkeepers and resturanteu...
| Michael, surely you're not suggesting that if you can't do everything you should do nothing? I am trying to determine if any retailers are actually trying to take reasonable steps to minimise animal s... |
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Toffeejim |
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18-10-2007, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Moving House
Post: RE: Moving House
| I did consider offering a point by point rebuttal to the previous post but then realised that HTG's piece simply serves to highlight both his own aesthetic limitations and his limited knowledge of (or... |
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Toffeejim |
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20-10-2007, 03:56 PM |
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Thread: A challenge to all shopkeepers and restauranteurs in Forest Hill
Post: RE: A challenge to all shopkeepers and restaurante...
| As nobody has yet volunteered that they sell humanely reared meat locally here is a very good article about happily raised animals from The Observer. I note with interest that the cattle get to listen... |
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Toffeejim |
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21-10-2007, 11:12 PM |
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Thread: Class divisions in FH
Post: RE: WH Smith - what do you think?
| [quote=Ian]
A "FH Lifer" not a 10 minute wonder......is my signature.
I can change it to 5 or 15 minutes if you like ??
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I'm just wondering if anyone's going to admit to being a three ... |
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Toffeejim |
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14-11-2007, 11:35 PM |
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Thread: Class divisions in FH
Post: RE: Class divisions in FH
| [quote=baggydave]
TJ; its a 'three minute hero' not 'three minute wonder'.
BD never coined the phrase UDB.
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BD: I thought both terms were used. But I'm happy to bow to your possibly grea... |
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Toffeejim |
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18-11-2007, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Bagel Shop
Post: RE: Class divisions in FH
| [quote=thenutfield]
[quote=pvp]
24 hour bagel shop - received a flyer on this but can't remember the address. Would come in handy when suffering the night bus munchies.
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a few doors up f... |
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Toffeejim |
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19-11-2007, 12:37 AM |
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Thread: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
Post: RE: Fifty grand for us to spend on improvements
| My three ideas (two of these have been made in previous threads but I can't find them, let alone work out how to link them):
1. Allocate permanent billboard space to a local artist so that people w... |
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Toffeejim |
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21-10-2007, 11:37 PM |
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Thread: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
Post: RE: (ex) Mercury TV - Perry Vale
| Baboonery - it was only after the Dartmouth Arms was gastro-ed that we saw Mayo Maker and Bunka open up. It may not be cause and effect but it did seem that way at the time. They're a couple of very n... |
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Toffeejim |
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14-11-2007, 12:40 AM |
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Thread: Mentally/physically handicapped kid on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Mentally/physically handicapped kid on Devonsh...
| [quote=thenutfield]
It seems unless you are one of the select few (see the thread about hello day in the beyond se23 bit), then your views are not welcome.
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But surely that was all about be... |
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Toffeejim |
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25-11-2007, 07:49 PM |
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Thread: Which is your Favourite Pub in SE23?
Post: RE: Which is your favourite pub in SE23?
| No Angle Bar?
There's an awful lot of taverning here: the Railway Tavern (Telegraph), the Moor Park Tavern (Hotel) and the Forest Hill Tavern (am I forgetting somewhere - does this exist?).
And ... |
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Toffeejim |
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26-11-2007, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: Quiz Honor Oak
Post: RE: Quiz Honor Oak
| [quote=pill-j]
all the Honor Oak needs to be the perfect pub
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No doubt I'm out of touch with modern definitions of what a good pub should be. I always thought that stocking decent ale and... |
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Toffeejim |
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02-12-2007, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: SE23.com's 5th Birthday and 1st Best Contributor Award
Post: RE: SE23.com's 5th Birthday and 1st Best Contribut...
| Can I specifically un-nominate the Bagpuss on the grounds that (i) he'll be the (hep) cat that got the cream if he gets any more compliments (ii) he knows a good deal less about pubs than he thinks he... |
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Toffeejim |
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05-12-2007, 12:32 AM |
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Thread: Did the binmen strike today?
Post: RE: Did the binmen strike today?
| To my great disappointment the bins in my part of the People's Republic were emptied yesterday. Baggydave - congratulations for allowing the strikebreakers their thirty pieces of silver for doing no w... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-07-2008, 11:19 PM |
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Thread: Poll: Who is in HOP, who is in Forest Hill...
Post: RE: Poll: Who is in HOP, who is in Forest Hill...
| [quote=thenutfield]
I'm FH - although I'm thinking of starting a campaign to rename my area (the 'wrong' side of the station!). There's definitely no hill down here in the vale!
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thenutfie... |
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Toffeejim |
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11-01-2008, 12:13 AM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| The Big issue is clearly a good money-raising mechanism for the homeless but there are less arbitrary, and probably more efficient, ways to give. I began a monthly standing order to a homeless charity... |
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Toffeejim |
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08-03-2008, 06:28 PM |
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Thread: The Blitz
Post: RE: The Blitz
| Shake 'n vac mountain made from fibreboard eh? I suppose if it is that much of a pre-fab estate it would have been cheap and fast to just build more of the same after the war. A shame though that we'r... |
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Toffeejim |
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08-03-2008, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Mayow Park
Post: RE: Mayow Park
| Brian, congratulations for speaking out in favour of a part of our community that is under-represented on this forum: people that have supported and contributed to the community over the course of man... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-05-2008, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Play Bus
Post: RE: Honor Oak Play Bus
| Lewisham has a traditional red routemaster that it has converted into a children's playbus for toddlers. It tours around the borough and, although originally conceived as a facility for travelling com... |
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Toffeejim |
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03-06-2008, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
Post: RE: Does Perry Vale need a coffee shop?
| [quote=baggydave]
No
Non
negative
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Sourpuss. Time for a new thread: "Is it a good idea to open up a pub/restaurant/coffee shop/deli within half a mile of Shake'n'Vac mountain?"
Oh no... |
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Toffeejim |
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03-06-2008, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Ticket Barriers at FH Station
| CAW: the staff on the barriers are not the decision-makers who are responsible for this mess. Best save your ire for the fat controllers. |
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Toffeejim |
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21-06-2008, 12:51 AM |
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Thread: Honor Oak Play Bus
Post: RE: Honor Oak Play Bus
| I'm sure the playbus regulars will be grateful for that piece of gracious condescension. The playbuses are indeed [i]useful[/i] to some. For others [i]indispensible[/i] might be a better descriptor. |
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Toffeejim |
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28-06-2008, 09:12 AM |
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Thread: Blythe Hill Fields
Post: RE: Blythe Hill Fields Festival
| And good, traditional English sports on offer: tug of war, boot throwing and the sack race. For the latter I especially enjoyed watching the keen dad who went surging into the lead and, just for a mom... |
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Toffeejim |
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01-07-2008, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Unless the council were to extend the conservation area to cover the buildings in question. Nothing to stop them doing this if their own plans were not to be thwarted by doing so. And some precedent w... |
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Toffeejim |
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24-07-2008, 01:31 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The character of Forest Hill is overwhelmingly Victorian. The great majority of us choose to live in Victorian houses. This is our environment and it helps to define us. But we are not blessed by a gr... |
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Toffeejim |
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01-07-2008, 11:44 PM |
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Thread: Door to door scammers
Post: RE: Door to door scammers
| I had this happen last year. The girls were waving about an unconvincing looking photocopied sponsor form but were unable to answer even the most basic questions about the race. If they reappear I'll ... |
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Toffeejim |
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29-07-2008, 02:10 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As the project has been put back could not the further sum be allocated out of a future year's budget? Presumably the initial sum allocated was from this year's budget.
I'll now sit back and await ... |
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Toffeejim |
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10-09-2008, 02:19 PM |
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Thread: Tesco, London Road
Post: RE: Immigration raid on Tesco, London Road
| Reading the link this looks very much as if it was first and foremost a police raid that happened to be directed at a foreign national. Given the significant number of people involved and that it clea... |
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Toffeejim |
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26-09-2008, 02:05 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Library
Post: RE: Forest Hill Library
| Hmmm........what we could really do with is an empty, Council owned building as near as possible to the library that they could fill up with old-fashioned shelving and lots and lots of stock. If [u]on... |
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Toffeejim |
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24-10-2008, 08:53 PM |
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Thread: Camille Pissarro's Paintings of Forest Hill
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park SE23
| I think Julia Neuberger is guilty some some over-interpretation here. Firstly the picture is clearly painted in the autumn or winter which accounts for the lighting and the lack of foliage. It's impor... |
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Toffeejim |
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13-12-2008, 11:00 AM |
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Thread: The History of Forest Hill
Post: RE: History of Forest Hill - 30 Jan at 7pm
| On the subject of the canal: I was looking at a local map from the 1890's and it shows a short section of the canal still there on land then yet to be built on but now Boveney Road. A quick look at Go... |
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Toffeejim |
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10-01-2009, 05:34 PM |
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Thread: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Dacres Wood Nature Reserve
| Just to remind people that this event will be taking place this Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. Nor is it just for the grown-ups: there'll be things for the young ones to do too including bark and le... |
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Toffeejim |
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26-03-2009, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: Large Cat Like Animal
Post: RE: Large Cat Like Animal
| Sounds familiar.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm |
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Toffeejim |
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02-11-2009, 11:39 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| [quote]Very impressed by the design and this was clearly inspired by Jason Lee[/quote]
This doesn't look too bad at all and should - if I have my angles right - look quite arresting to drivers comi... |
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Toffeejim |
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16-03-2011, 03:52 AM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| Excellent post Bagster. If I had the ability to introduce any one law into Parliament it would be the Football Supporters (Proximity to Birthplace) Bill. It would impose strict financial penalties on ... |
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Toffeejim |
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21-10-2007, 11:47 AM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| Actually they refused The Tube. Or have I just unwittingly provided the feedline for a transport-related gag? |
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Toffeejim |
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22-10-2007, 12:14 AM |
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Thread: World Hello Day
Post: World Hello Day
| The object is to say hello to ten people during the day. The idea is to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts.
So today I will be saying hello to (in no particular order of confli... |
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Toffeejim |
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21-11-2007, 03:12 PM |
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Thread: World Hello Day
Post: RE: Today is World Hello Day
| [quote=baggydave]
Cutting edge stuff TJ
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Enough of your agitprop Baggy.
I had a revelation as two gin-scented tears trickled down the side of my nose. I now embrace the Ministry of Lov... |
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Toffeejim |
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22-11-2007, 11:14 AM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| [quote=roz]
The more churches converted to housing the better for us all.......
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Alternatively you could leave churchgoers to follow their beliefs in peace, as the overwhelming majority of ... |
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Toffeejim |
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27-11-2007, 11:59 PM |
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Thread: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
Post: RE: How to stop Jehova's Witnesses?
| [quote=Baboonery]
Nobody said that these churches should be [i]forcibly [/i]changed into housing. It's just something an awful lot of people would like to see happen. I smile every time I see a chu... |
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Toffeejim |
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28-11-2007, 03:59 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=Perryman]
Perhaps people's birth certificates should be stamped with team they are allowed to support.
Send the details on a couple of CDs to all clubs, so they can turn away any plastic fa... |
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Toffeejim |
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05-12-2007, 12:49 AM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=Baboonery]
750,000
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This is nonsense. |
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Toffeejim |
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09-12-2007, 01:08 AM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
| [quote=Baboonery]
[quote=Les]
I wonder what can realistically be done, about the standard of behaviour of kids in pubs. The mentality from parents in some cases appears to be to treat the whole pub ... |
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Toffeejim |
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04-12-2007, 03:29 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| How about adopting an evidence-based approach to this subject? Those who find themsleves outraged by the actions of children (or the inaction of their parents) should note on this board what has happe... |
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Toffeejim |
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08-12-2007, 08:56 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| [quote=nevermodern]
Don't we all know the pubs where the kids mostly are?
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Do we know where there are pubs with children actually causing problems though? Recent local examples much apprec... |
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Toffeejim |
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10-12-2007, 12:10 AM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Children in pubs
| [quote=Baboonery]
"*** off somewhere else then."
"Aaaaah, they're only kids, aren't they sweeeeeeeeeet!"
"How dare you insinuate that my offspring aren't the pride of humanity, I ought to smash y... |
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Toffeejim |
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12-12-2007, 06:52 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=Baboonery]
[quote=Toffeejim]
[quote=Baboonery]
750,000
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This is nonsense.
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That was Merseyside Police's official estimate.
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It is still utter nonsense. ... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-12-2007, 03:15 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| [quote=baggydave]
There surely is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a knife.
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It's writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro. But you knew tha... |
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Toffeejim |
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17-12-2007, 03:21 PM |
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Thread: Supporting football in the area
Post: RE: Supporting football in the area
| By the Mersey metropolitan area I was referring to the Liverpool urban area (pop 816,000) rather than the even more enormous area of Merseyside (yes that is 1.37m). Either way the figures simply don't... |
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Toffeejim |
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18-12-2007, 03:11 PM |
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